During the presidential election of 1976,
A) Jimmy Carter won a narrow victory by positioning himself as an outsider who could help deal with the struggling economy.
B) Henry Jackson and Morris Udall battled it out in the Democratic primary, with Jackson edging Udall, only to lose in the general election to Ronald Reagan.
C) Gerald Ford won a close reelection after many television viewers believed he had won the presidential debate.
D) Ronald Reagan successfully defeated Gerald Ford during the primaries, but he lost the general election.
Answer: A
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A) became one of the most powerful and centralized monarchies in Europe under the domination of Spanish grandees. B) was not really an empire at all but rather a loose association of 300 German states. C) became divided into three great warring states: Prussia, Poland, and Silesia. D) was dominated by Brandenburg-Prussia, which suppressed the autonomy of all other imperial territories. E) was ruled by the Bourbons.
Greece's environment can best be described as
a. a mountainous peninsula. b. a vast, flat plain. c. a bleak desert. d. a fertile rain forest. e. a land with many climatic zones.
All of the following countries sent troops to Russia to oppose the Communists EXCEPT
a. The U.S. b. Britain c. The Ottoman Empire d. Japan e. France
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a. Christian abstraction b. classicism c. orthodoxy d. iconoclasm e. none of the above